Daniel Smith Color Showdown S2E8: Transparent Brown Oxide vs Mummy Bauxite

[@Angie-pl3uw]

Choosing and buying colors beats buying shoes any day. Then you do some mixing and you have many, many new outfits! Thank you, Dr. Oto Kano

[@deborahgoodwin3426]

Dear Dr Kano, I just wanted to take a moment to let you know that as a relatively new artist to the medium of watercolor, you have been the most inspirational and fascinating teacher that I have been so very fortunate to have found here on UTube. I have learned, and am continuing to learn, sooooo much from you regarding color theory, color mixing and just all around color knowledge than I could have ever imagined. I can't begin to thank you enough for sharing the results of all of your amazing and incredibly in-depth work. You have my utmost respect, admiration and appreciation for all that you do. You are a very, very special person as well as being a very gifted artist. Thank you, from the bottom of this little old granny's heart! 👩‍🦳🖌️♥️

[@pudgeallday1265]

Can you imagine being the person at DS that writes all of those color descriptions? Its like a love letter with every color. mind boggling.

[@OtoKano]

It must be a dream job :D

[@pudgeallday1265]

Dr. Oto Kano really Daniel Smith should be paying you. I spend alot of money on paint bc of you lol

[@InLiquidColor]

I can't get over those brown mixes! What a surprise. I love the mummy bauxite for it's stand-alone hue, but those mixes for the transparent brown totally take the cake! I've never used it before but perhaps I should!

[@OtoKano]

Right? Right? The colors are just soooooo pretty. So perfectly autumnal/wintery.

[@jaimeanderson9238]

I just watched your video first and came over here for the comparison😂 I really love the brown. It seems finding one without any red is hard and how many Venetian red colors can one justify lol

[@korithompson8288]

Oh my goodness, I completely agree! Just give me both please

[@geckonia]

I never would have guessed TBO would mix such gorgeous jewel tones. Stunning... 🙏🏼 thank you!

[@OtoKano]

You are so welcome! They really are just so beautiful.

[@threelittlebirdsart9353]

Wow! What a fantastic video! A perfect comparison and I love the bit of history and information. I love all the tests you did as well. I was all set to buy the mummy until I saw the color mixes! Eventually I might get them both but with a limited budget, I think that might be a great option!

[@dlee1363]

I love your excitement with color mixing!

[@romyzaidel6040]

I adore your colour comparisons. I just picked up a tube of transparent brown and red oxides and I'm so excited to use them. Thank you!

[@OtoKano]

Woooo! I hope you enjoy those two colors. Very good choices!

[@anam00090]

Whoa those Transparent Brown Oxide mixes 😲 I'd use that palette straightaway. GORGEOUS ❤️ Have you tried any Burnt Umbers to comment on how it compares to Trans. Brown Oxide in hue? (I know Umber is a PBr7 but maybe this is a nice replacement)

[@OtoKano]

I'll have a play when I feel up to going into my studio and let you know :)

[@kathrynt98011]

I love, love, love the Transparent Brown Oxide. It’s the brightest brown I’ve ever used. I love it for abstract-ish or surreal landscapes, particularly with Sedona Genuine and a vivid Ultramarine and maybe quinacridone gold or nickel Azo yellow? It just about shimmies off the page. I’ve been known to use it for cute animal illustrations too.

[@OtoKano]

oh gosh all those color combos sounds so beautiful.

[@jittersaunt]

I thought Mummy because of the original color but those mixes with TBO are GORGEOUS!!! So TBO for sure.

[@lindyashford7744]

The trans brown is really nice, wish I had ordered it with the other trans oxides. It looks a really nice fine grind, perhaps this is why it is slightly more staining than the bauxite, and why the bauxite is more opaque? The mixes are lovely. I will never be a person who makes huge comprehensive colour charts, but this way of doing things with a mother colour means I can have a start point for a palette for every painting. Thanks so much for being a great teacher.

[@OtoKano]

So glad you got so much out of the mother color Lindy! THank you so much for watching.

[@NoName-lc3em]

Those mixes of the transparent brown oxide are so gorgeous I would buy it and put it in my palette immediately but I'm not sure how heavily granulating it would be on the paper I use and from Denise's video on granulating colors, the transparent brown oxide seemed to granulated much more heavily than on here

[@jengoodwyn2715]

I love your colour comparisons. They are so thorough and very helpful!

[@OtoKano]

So glad you are enjoying this series Jen. Thank you so much for watching.

[@EveBolt]

I would also choose TBO, the mixes and nice and intense!! Mummy was lovely with the gauze though!

[@OtoKano]

Great choice :D

[@dynomax101]

So many watercolor artists are afraid of browns, purples, blacks and white. Afraid of having a lot of colors, thinking with color theory all the while and not realizing pigments have ways of throwing most color theories to the ground because no color theory I know of takes pigment properties into account. There are "teachers" on YT advocating using only a very few colors, then going ahead and telling their students to mix something like thirty colors on their palette to use in their painting. Am I the only artist who thinks this is wacky? Nothing wrong with using very few colors and mixing scads of colors. I just question the logic of fiercely advocating using only a few colors then advocating mixing a lot of them. I find color and pigments utterly fascinating and wonder why so many other artists seem to be afraid of them. Oto Kano here shows us many wonderful combinations. Her, along with Denise Sodens are expanding our knowledge base by showing so many colors and so many mixes. My hat is off to them.

[@5yarcottages397]

Agree absolutely. I love experimenting with different pigments and mixes. Playing with Daniel Smith's Lunar black and Primatek Black Tourmaline in mixes is pur joy !

[@Donna_G]

I don't even have any browns on my palette. When I want a brown color, I will mix Fr. Ultramarine with Quin. Burnt Orange. However, I like both of the browns that you compared. I think I would get them both for different reasons. I think they both would be fun to use.

[@OtoKano]

I'm the same, I didn't have browns on my palette for a really long time. At the mo, I have transparent red oxide, but that's in place of a yellow-orange color.

[@WendiWells]

I really like Transparent Brown Oxide. That’s another color that I have in my quick sketching palette. I use it as a replacement for the traditional Burnt Sienna, because I also wanted to have Quinacridone Burnt Orange as my earthy orange. I also use Sepia as a replacement for Burnt Umber, and Goethite Brown Ocher and Buff Titanium round out the browns for me.

[@sunnycharacter]

Would you think Roman Szmal Transparent Brown might render such amazing mixes as you accomplished here?

[@windywednesday4166]

Question, What kind of gauze do you use for the paint samples?

[@keepyourshoesathedoor]

Wow…transparent brown oxide…I need that one.

[@EtherealOde]

I really love the Mummy Bauxite color, it reminds me of baking...the cinnamonish tone looks like it was pulled out of my spice cabinet! But the Transparent Brown Oxide mixes, omg they are just so lovely. The mixes you got from it were straight out of my wardrobe palette! I also wonder how it might do as a sub for Burnt Umber or Burnt Sienna. Another wonderful, informative video. I wish I could thumb's up more than once. ^_^

[@OtoKano]

So glad you liked this video. I would say that Burnt Sienna is probably close to Trans. Red Oxide, and burnt umber is closer to Trans Brown Oxide.

[@empress_craft]

Making me rethink Transparent Brown Oxide (but I have M. Graham).... Gonna have to do some mixing

[@OtoKano]

Hope you have lots of fun mixing with TBO!

[@veystone2580]

I have seen practically all of your videos, and since you know so much, maybe you are the one who can answer me this. Is there an equivalemt or a similar watercolor to asphaltum which I red is a transparent brown to black-brown? I hope you can answer this. I have tried to find it on my own but I can't find it!

[@jenarnold438]

I have been curious about these colors but haven’t explored them yet! Thank you so much for showing and comparing them for us!😊 I’m in the Seattle area now and I’m hoping to make it to the Daniel Smith store...I may have to add trans brown oxide to my wishlist! 😉😁😂 Thank You again for all the hard work you do with this series! It’s definitely one of my favorites!,👍🏻😁😁

[@kathrynt98011]

Jen Arnold oh man if you go to the Daniel Smith store downtown, prepare to spend some serious time there and set yourself a budget first. At this point I have to just take in a pre-determined amount of cash and leave my credit card in an envelope in the glove box in the car.

[@jenarnold438]

Kathryn T. ...thanks for your advice! I actually have some cash set aside and I’m planning to not use it all! It’s going to be hard though, I’ve not been there before and I live all the way in Spokane...so getting there is not convenient....I’m going to be soooo tempted...the struggle is real😳🙃

[@kathrynt98011]

Jen Arnold it is very real. Let me pre-warn you: they have a “playground” set up, with ALL OF THEIR PAINTS out in palettes, and paper and brushes, so that you can play and see how the paints act and interact. I don’t even want to think about how much that damn playground has cost me!! 😂

[@jenarnold438]

Kathryn T. Oh wow!! Really! Ok... I’m now both excited and scared all at the same time! That’s MY kind of playground!😁

[@OtoKano]

I am sooooo far away from San Fran :( Really hope you have a wonderful time!

[@StrawberryLegacy]

I was like "Wow Transparent Brown Oxide is gorgeous, I should check that out!" turns out I already have the Schmincke version (Transparent Umber) on my palette 😅 It doesn't granulate though (which I'm fine with)

[@pudgeallday1265]

I just bought the mummy but now after seeing this I want the tbo

[@loveandlife4222]

Oh my! I love those colors you created when mixing the transparent brown oxide. I’m going to order it and experiment. I don’t have any Holbein colors - mostly I have Daniel Smith and a few sennelier. I’m hoping I can create close to what you have! I know it would be a lot of work for you but it would be awesome if somewhere it were listed which colors were comparable in different brands with the ones you are mixing with. Does that make sense? I love love your comparisons. Thank you so much!

[@OtoKano]

Hope you have a fab time experimenting with mixes :D

[@robinjeree]

To me, the salted transp. brown oxide looks like an actual piece of toast! I just ordered this color from M. Graham, it will interesting to see how it compares to your swatches.

[@OtoKano]

Lol toast! now that you say it, I can see what you mean. Hope you have fun with your MG!

[@jillc2700]

So my Dad just started playing with art and now he's collecting supplies. 0.o Yesterday an order came in and he had purchased a $40 wc sable brush round 8. He goes, "It's a good brush, right?" Me: *cries a little inside 'cause I took months figuring out what brushes I wanted when I upgraded recently* "Yeah, that's probably a good brush." Anyway, thanks for sharing your knowledge about colors and showing us the difference between them so I can pick the very best one! I'm leaning toward that transparent brown oxide: I have fallen in love with those mixes.

[@OtoKano]

Lol I totally know what you mean! What brush are you using now?

[@jillc2700]

Black Velvet Silver Brush in 8 round and an oval wash 1". (coupon helped with the cost.) I also found a good deal on Utrecht Masters WC brushes on clearance (which is still up), as well as two Princeton Neptune Quills in 8 and 4. All the brushes are so, so much better than the cheapo packs I had before.

[@gordonsneddon5914]

Trans brown oxide for me!😍

[@Mekeweissame]

Am I really the only person who strongly preferred the vibrant candy mixes of the mummy bauxite to the dark mustardy TBO mixes?

[@leslie2594]

I loved the mummy bauxite mixes because they felt like spring

[@SMCCRADY2]

Transparent Brown Oxide

[@KatieReadsKoziesAndMore]

I like both of them. One looks like coffee and the other looks like deep rich hot chocolate. Now I want a nice hot drink!

[@OtoKano]

mmmm hot chocolate!

[@jodane6186]

TBO all the way. Great comparison, however.

[@ianjackson5834]

am torn they both have great quality's, the mommy would go well with other PR101 paints I have. tfs

[@OtoKano]

They are so hard to decide aren't they :)

[@lynn2551]

...and not made of ground up humans